When you come to write your extended response for Question Three of Paper One, you will need to include detailed analysis of a variety of supplementary texts. Below is a list of books and films that you could consider for this section. Ideally, you want to end up with a range of texts from different text types that present differing ideas of belonging. This will give you more scope for comparing and constrasting and developing an in depth analysis. When you are considering a supplementary text, complete a Supplementary Text Analysis Grid in order to ensure that the text is suitable for use. The grid can be downloaded below.
Books Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood Surfacing – Margaret Atwood To Sir With Love – E.R. Braithwaite The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway Leaving Home – Anits Brookner March – Geraldine Brooks A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess The Outsider – Albert Camus The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas The Sound of One Hand Clapping – Richard Flanagan The Unknown Terrorist – Richard Flanagan The Hungry Tide – Amitav Ghosh Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden The Secret River – Kate Grenville The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy Dune – Frank Herbert About a Boy – Nick Hornby The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo The Bone People – Keri Hulme Carry Me Down – MJ Hyland Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Heat and Dust – Ruth Jhabvala Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Tom Keneally The Home Crowd – Graham Kershaw One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey The Poisonwood Bible – B Kingsolver The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine – Marina Lewycka The Life of Pi – Yann Martel A Far Country – Daniel Mason The Road – Cormac McCarthy A Child in Time – Ian McEwan Banana Bottom – Claude McKay The Memory of Running – Ron McLarty Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote Family Matters – R Mistry The Deep End of the Ocean – Jacquelyn Mitchard The Orchard – Drusilla Modjeska Kafka on the Shore – Mirakami Haruki A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipul The Mimic Men – V.S. Naipul We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates Our Fathers – Andrew O’Hagen Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton My Sister’s Keeper – Jodie Picoult The Shipping News – Annie Proulx Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield Dracula – Bram Stoker Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver White Teeth – Zadie Smith The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles – Elizabeth Stead Digging to America – Anne Tyler The Road From Coorain – Jill Ker Conway Exodus – Leon Uris Breath – Tim Winton The Riders – Tim Winton The Turning – Tim Winton Live and Learn – Joan Didion Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevski The Dispossessed – Ursula LeGuin For Whom The Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Highways to a War - Christopher J. Koch The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Films
About a Boy American History X An Angel at my Table As it is in Heaven Babel Batman Beneath Clouds Big Wednesday The Breakfast Club Boys Don’t Cry Brokeback Mountain A Clockwork Orange Cruel Intentions Dead Poet’s Society The December Boys Donnie Darko The Elephant Man Fight Club Finding Forrester Fried Green Tomatoes Ghandi Gattaca Girl, Interrupted Open Range Red River In America Into the Wild Interview with the Vampire K-Pax The Kite Runner Life is Beautiful Little Miss Sunshine Look Both Ways Mad Max Malcolm X Memoirs of a Geisha Miss Potter Monsoon Wedding Napoleon Dynamite Nineteen Eighty Four A Few Good Men Once Were Warriors One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest One Night the Moon Pan’s Labyrinth Philadelphia The Pursuit of Happyness Rabbit Proof Fence River Queen Rebel Without a Cause Schindler’s List Shine Somersault Little Fish Tales from a Suitcase The Proposition Trainspotting Transamerica V for Vendetta Walkabout Water Yolngu Boy
Glory Breakfast at Tiffany's
Looking for Alibrandi
Dirty Dancing
It's a Wonderful Life
The Fifth Element
Empire of the Sun
When you come to write your extended response for Question Three of Paper One, you will need to include detailed analysis of a variety of supplementary texts. Below is a list of books and films that you could consider for this section. Ideally, you want to end up with a range of texts from different text types that present differing ideas of belonging. This will give you more scope for comparing and constrasting and developing an in depth analysis. When you are considering a supplementary text, complete a Supplementary Text Analysis Grid in order to ensure that the text is suitable for use. The grid can be downloaded below.
Books
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Behind the Scenes at the Museum – Kate Atkinson
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
To Sir With Love – E.R. Braithwaite
The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
Leaving Home – Anits Brookner
March – Geraldine Brooks
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The Outsider – Albert Camus
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Once Were Warriors – Alan Duff
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Sound of One Hand Clapping – Richard Flanagan
The Unknown Terrorist – Richard Flanagan
The Hungry Tide – Amitav Ghosh
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Secret River – Kate Grenville
The Forsyte Saga – John Galsworthy
Dune – Frank Herbert
About a Boy – Nick Hornby
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Bone People – Keri Hulme
Carry Me Down – MJ Hyland
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Heat and Dust – Ruth Jhabvala
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones
Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith - Tom Keneally
The Home Crowd – Graham Kershaw
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Poisonwood Bible – B Kingsolver
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold – John Le Carre
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine – Marina Lewycka
The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
A Far Country – Daniel Mason
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
A Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Banana Bottom – Claude McKay
The Memory of Running – Ron McLarty
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Family Matters – R Mistry
The Deep End of the Ocean – Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Orchard – Drusilla Modjeska
Kafka on the Shore – Mirakami Haruki
A House for Mr Biswas – V.S. Naipul
The Mimic Men – V.S. Naipul
We Were the Mulvaneys – Joyce Carol Oates
Our Fathers – Andrew O’Hagen
Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia – George Orwell
Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodie Picoult
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Gospel of Gods and Crocodiles – Elizabeth Stead
Digging to America – Anne Tyler
The Road From Coorain – Jill Ker Conway
Exodus – Leon Uris
Breath – Tim Winton
The Riders – Tim Winton
The Turning – Tim Winton
Live and Learn – Joan Didion
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevski
The Dispossessed – Ursula LeGuin
For Whom The Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Highways to a War - Christopher J. Koch
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Films
About a Boy
American History X
An Angel at my Table
As it is in Heaven
Babel
Batman
Beneath Clouds
Big Wednesday
The Breakfast Club
Boys Don’t Cry
Brokeback Mountain
A Clockwork Orange
Cruel Intentions
Dead Poet’s Society
The December Boys
Donnie Darko
The Elephant Man
Fight Club
Finding Forrester
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ghandi
Gattaca
Girl, Interrupted
Open Range
Red River
In America
Into the Wild
Interview with the Vampire
K-Pax
The Kite Runner
Life is Beautiful
Little Miss Sunshine
Look Both Ways
Mad Max
Malcolm X
Memoirs of a Geisha
Miss Potter
Monsoon Wedding
Napoleon Dynamite
Nineteen Eighty Four
A Few Good Men
Once Were Warriors
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Night the Moon
Pan’s Labyrinth
Philadelphia
The Pursuit of Happyness
Rabbit Proof Fence
River Queen
Rebel Without a Cause
Schindler’s List
Shine
Somersault
Little Fish
Tales from a Suitcase
The Proposition
Trainspotting
Transamerica
V for Vendetta
Walkabout
Water
Yolngu Boy
Glory
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Looking for Alibrandi
Dirty Dancing
It's a Wonderful Life
The Fifth Element
Empire of the Sun